Leuchtdichte

German: Leuchtdichte


I always want to translate this "light density", but of course it is luminance.  Fortunately, every time I have to translate things about lighting, I always have a good TM.  But for this last one, I ran across a great lighting technology dictionary.

Sicherheitsabfrage

German: Sicherheitsabfrage

I've been flummoxed by this for years, and now I feel stupid: confirmation prompt is a much, much better translation than the stupid "safety query" or "security query" I've been defaulting to.

gekröpft

German: gekröpft (of a chain link)

Offset link, apparently.  A "gekröpftes Glied" is a half-link used to get the length of a roller chain (like a bicycle chain) right. Source: http://www.fks-gmbh.de/katalog/fks_katalog.pdf.

vehiculo

Spanish: vehiculo


In medical terminology, the vehicle of a medication is the inert substance in which the active ingredient is suspended or dissolved, and is usually called an excipient nowadays.  (Older texts may still use "vehicle".)

Fegedampf

German: Fegedampf

Also Brüden - both, according to the glossary my current end customer has supplied, are "flash steam", the steam that exhausts from a system under pressure.

Bündnerfleisch

Swiss German: Bündnerfleisch

I was utterly delighted to run across the word Bündnerfleisch today in the company history of Multi-Contact I'm translating.  It's a uniquely Baseler type of deli meat, a spiced dried beef, but its chief claim to recent global fame is this absolutely charming attack of laughter year before last on the part of Switzerland's finance minister Hans-Rudolf Merz, trying to read some Euroswiss import/export regulations to Parliament and breaking down entirely when it mentioned the meat in question.

TIBCO

I hate to violate the template like this, but here are some links to what TIBCO is about.  I'll clean up this post later with a specific word.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuxedo_(software)
• http://www.greenhat.com/test_tibco.html
• http://www.itko.com/solutions/tibco.jsp